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diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md index 66f2986ab2a..d2b8cf65b35 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md @@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ type: reference You can view information and options set for each of the mounted NFS file systems by running `nfsstat -m` and `cat /etc/fstab`. +CAUTION: **Caution:** +From GitLab 13.0, using NFS for Git repositories is deprecated. In GitLab 14.0, +support for NFS for Git repositories is scheduled to be removed. Upgrade to +[Gitaly Cluster](../gitaly/praefect.md) as soon as possible. + NOTE: **Note:** Filesystem performance has a big impact on overall GitLab performance, especially for actions that read or write to Git repositories. See [Filesystem Performance Benchmarking](../operations/filesystem_benchmarking.md) for steps to test filesystem performance. -NOTE: **Note:** [Cloud Object Storage service](object_storage.md) with [Gitaly](gitaly.md) -is recommended over NFS wherever possible for improved performance. - ## NFS Server features ### Required features @@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ To disable NFS server delegation, do the following: #### Important notes The kernel bug may be fixed in -[more recent kernels with this commit](https://github.om/torvalds/linux/commit/95da1b3a5aded124dd1bda1e3cdb876184813140). +[more recent kernels with this commit](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/95da1b3a5aded124dd1bda1e3cdb876184813140). Red Hat Enterprise 7 [shipped a kernel update](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029) on August 6, 2019 that may also have resolved this problem. @@ -184,7 +186,7 @@ The NFS man page states: Read the [Linux man page](https://linux.die.net/man/5/nfs) to understand the difference, and if you do use `soft`, ensure that you've taken steps to mitigate the risks. -If you experience behaviour that might have been caused by +If you experience behavior that might have been caused by writes to disk on the NFS server not occurring, such as commits going missing, use the `hard` option, because (from the man page): @@ -271,7 +273,7 @@ following are the 4 locations need to be shared: Other GitLab directories should not be shared between nodes. They contain node-specific files and GitLab code that does not need to be shared. To ship -logs to a central location consider using remote syslog. GitLab Omnibus packages +logs to a central location consider using remote syslog. Omnibus GitLab packages provide configuration for [UDP log shipping](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/logs.html#udp-log-shipping-gitlab-enterprise-edition-only). Having multiple NFS mounts will require manually making sure the data directories |